Its always nice to have a bit of a change, and we'd booked a four day spa break over Valentines Day instead of going city hopping as in previous years.
The Mayfair Hideaway Spa is tucked away between the Sal River, surrounded by palm trees and Betul a tiny village.
The hotel very kindly sent a car for us, so no worries about finding the place
The Spa has wonderful statues of elephants as you cross the bridge to the entrance, and all the walkways throughout the hotel area have pretty coloured starfish and animal ceramics set into the path, and at the very edge there are rows of turtles.
We were shown to our room which was beautifully furnished with a huge bed and lovely deep mattress. Anyone who has ever been to India will understand that the mattresses can be a tad on the hard side, this was just so comfy!
The view from the window was fabulous overlooking the river estuary going out to sea
with swaying palms just in front
There was a Hindu Shrine and the bell tolled every so often for people to come to prayer As you walked to the pool you had to go through the Mermaid corridor where there were dozens of paintings of beautiful mermaids
There was always something lovely to look at, every time you walked the paths
The infinity pool was so inviting, and while we were there hardly anyone used it. So our own pool for a few days!
The formal rooms were also very interesting there was the lighthouse room where you could browse books and DVD's, but whose got time for films when your actually in a setting like this one
Every room seemed to have a unique theme to it, even the bar had a huge aquarium to watch
The restaurant was also first class, we took breakfast here, lunch by the pool and evenings in the restaurant or on the pool deck for Valentines Night
And, as we got engaged 47 years ago on Valentines Day, they even gave us red roses and chocolates in our room and a lovely cake at Dinner. We shared it with a couple who had been married just a week and were having their honeymoon in Goa. They live in Delhi and had never been here before, so it seemed a nice gesture to give them some of our cake, and to be honest we couldn't have eaten it all anyway!
We both decided to have a massage, it was funny really, we had our massages in the same room, with a Thai guy doing his Lordships and a small but extremely strong Thai girl giving me mine. I have to say I booked a Swedish massage for himself, and an Aromatherapy one for me, but I think I ended up having a Swedish massage too. My legs and back have never been stretched and pulled like that before and the grunts and groans from the next massage table weren't exactly sounds of pleasure!! He said he felt as though he'd been through a spin cycle in a washing machine. Needless to say we both slept like logs but it took a while to ease ourselves out of bed in the morning.
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